Archive for March 6th, 2008
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Filed under: Business, Windows, Macintosh, Linux, E-mail, Office, Productivity, Web services, Google, Commercial, Freeware, How-Tos
While many people using Google Apps are already happy users of the “new” version of Gmail (apparently Google doesn’t want to call it Gmail 2.0), there are still many users of Google Apps that are stuck on the older version. If you’re frustrated at seeing the cool new things you can do in the new Gmail and you’re still stuck on the old version, there might be something that you can do.
If you are the administrator for your Google Apps account, or can speak to that person, there’s an option under Domain Settings (General tab) in the Control Panel section called “Turn on new application features to my domain before they are rolled out to all Google Apps customers.” A week after we checked that box on our Google Apps account, Gmail magically transformed to the new version. Good luck!
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Filed under: Utilities, Macintosh, Productivity, Freeware
 DockDrop is a simple Mac OS X application that lets you easily and quickly upload files to an FTP, WebDAV, or SCP server, with added support for Flickr uploads.
When DockDrop is open, it resides quietly on your dock (hence the name). When you want to upload a file or folder, simply drop the item onto the Dockdrop icon (see again why the name is so apt?). Dockdrop will prompt you for the upload method of your choice, upload the file, and put a URL for your upload on the clipboard, ready for pasting into an email, chat program or website.
Dockdrop offers set-it-and-forget-it functionality: once you enter in your server credentials, Dockdrop will store the settings, so you won’t have to enter them again.
One of the added bonuses of DockDrop (besides its simplicity and ease of use) is the Flickr integration. After a easy authentication process, you can drag and drop your images onto DockDrop and they upload seamlessly to your Flickr account.
Dockdrop is free, and requires an Intel Mac with 10.4 or 10.5.
[via AppScout]
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Filed under: Fun, Internet, Blogging, Productivity, Web services, Google, Yahoo!, Browser Tips, web 2.0
Photobucket, a popular image-hosting site, will get basic image-editing features (resizing, cropping, coloring, rotating, etc.) thanks to FotoFlexer, an in-browser, web-based picture editor.
For those who use both services, this is probably unsurprising as FotoFlexer already lets users save their edited pictures to their Photobucket accounts — as well as any Facebook, Myspace, Yahoo Flickr, and Google Picasa accounts that they know the usernames and passwords to.
Well, at least this saves Photobucket users the hassle of logging into a separate site to do a little basic editing, which comes to a total of 48 seconds saved per pic edited according to our highly (un)scientific calculations.
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Filed under: Business, Windows, Macintosh, Linux, E-mail, Office, Productivity, Web services, Google, Freeware, How-Tos
 While we might have touched on it when we covered the release of the “new” version of Gmail, we thought you (like us) might have forgotten about this great tiny trick.
Gmail now treats each page like a web page. Okay, that might sound a bit too obvious, so we’ll explain. When you open a message, label, or do a search, each of the resulting pages you see will have a dedicated URL. This means that if you bookmark or copy and paste the URL, you can later return to exactly the same view.
Even more useful is the fact that the URL for a search works across different Gmail accounts. So if you have a friend or co-worker that you know has certain information in their email, but can’t seem to find it, you can do a search in your own Gmail account, then send your friend the URL for that search and they’ll have the exact same search criteria applied against their own account.
For example, if you want to search your Gmail account for “Download Squad”, try using the following URL:
https://mail.google.com/mail/#search/%22download+squad%22
Slick!
By the way, if you’re having trouble making this work, try accessing your account using the secure method. To do this, just ensure your Gmail URL begins with “https”. For some reason we can’t seem to make this trick work unless we’re using this method.
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TrueCommerce Announces Microsoft(R) Gold Certified Partner Status
Forbes - TrueCommerce customers use an award-winning solution to exchange tens of millions of EDI transactions annually within a variety of industries including retail, banking, healthcare, and government.
Va. lawmakers weigh foreclosure bill
CNBC - It doesn’t hurt the banking industry and it might help the poor borrower, so I don’t see why we don’t go ahead with it,” said Del. Frank Hargrove, R-Hanover.
He seems to have appreciated that heritage is not a luxury at football
Guardian Unlimited - but shy as a boy, he’s said to have felt somewhat in the shadow of his father, a living embodiment of the American dream, who grew up in the back of his immigrant parents’ Brooklyn candy store and went on to make fortunes in property and banking.
Banks push share market down 2pc
News.com.au - Analysts said downgrades in the financial sector in the US were “washing through” to the local banking stocks, with the massive four weighing heavily on the bourse.
PNG still hopeful
National - Seriously, the women are working against time and I will be banking on their hearts to win the match for Papua New Guinea,” Moiyap said. He admitted that our women were not tough mentally but he would be relying on experienced players like
NAB warns of more rate hikes
News.com.au - The bank’s four-basis-point increase above the RBA adjustment appeared to be sufficiently restrained to avoid a Canberra backlash, with Wayne Swan confining his reaction to the banking industry as a whole.
Brazil currency, stocks fall on U.S. woes, Bradesco
Forbes - SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil’s currency erased early gains on Thursday to close lower and stocks tumbled on declines in the banking sector and pressure from Wall Street losses amid fresh worries about the U.S. credit crunch. The Bovespa index of the
Bear states CITIC deal to be revised, reflect market
Reuters - Shares of China’s largest brokerage and the U.S. investment bank both have fallen about 40 percent since October 22, when the two celebrations announced plans to invest $1 billion in each other and form a joint banking venture in Asia.
Stock & fund quotes
ninemsn - Aussie investors watched as more than 2% was wiped off the market in morning trade on Friday. Banking stocks fought off current amnesia about credit market fears and returned to their downward run. At lunch, the All Ords fell 154.4 at 5377.5 and the
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USA Today - Indiana Democratic Party Chairman Dan Parker, who is backing Clinton, is banking on a repeat. He has moved the date of the party’s annual spring dinner from April 18 to Might 4, the Sunday before the primary, and invited Clinton and Obama to talk.
SureWest promotes two executives
Sacramento Business Journal - Before joining SureWest in 2006, Sommers was a managing director of investment banking for Cantor Fitzgerald in Los Angeles. SureWest (Nasdaq:
Banks to propose reforms given credit crisis: IIF
Reuters - RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - The top international banking lobby is drawing up an industry response to the credit crisis that will urge stronger risk management and bookkeeping standards, Deutsche Bank (DBKGn.DE: Quote , Profile , Research ) Chairman
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SKT, Citi to Work Together in M-Banking - Korea Times
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Filed under: Internet, Productivity, Google
 Google today released a piece of software that may just be the holy grail of calendar synchronization. Well, if you use Windows and Outlook, anyway. Google Calendar Sync is a utility that automatically synchronizes your Outlook and Google Calendar appointments.
You can configure Google Calendar Sync for 2 way sync, meaning that any time you update either calendar, the changes will be copied to the other. Or you can choose a 1-way sync which will only copy changes made from one calendar to the other and not vice versa.
What’s really exciting about Google Calendar Sync is it gives you a way to synchronize your calendar across multiple devices easily. Just install Google Calendar Sync on multiple computers and now when you update your laptop calendar it will automatically sync with Google Calendar, which will automatically sync with your desktop PC, which will sync with your Windows Mobile PDA. Pretty cool, huh?
Google Calendar Sync is hardly the first tool for synchronizing Outlook and Google Calendar, but it’s free and it performs automatic synchronization at regularly scheduled interviews while most other programs cost money and/or require you to activate them manually.
Now if Google would just release a version that works with Thunderbird (with the Lightning extension) and iCal.
[via Official Google Blog]
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Filed under: Marketing and advertising, Kohl’s Corp (KSS)
Punk-pop princess Avril Lavigne has signed a deal with Kohl’s Corporation (NYSE: KSS) to introduce a line of junior fashions to be sold exclusively at Kohl’s stores.
The brand will be called Abbey Dawn — after the singer’s childhood nickname. Lavigne said the collection will consist of “a lot of hot pinks and blacks and stars and purple and zebra. Basically, everything I wear.” Kohl’s states that Abbey Dawn is “a rock collection with a feminine edge.” Lavigne states she will be designing the products herself and wearing them on her tour.
Kohl’s seems like an interesting choice for a partner for this — a tiny too clean-cut for the image she has cultivated throughout her career. Hot Topic, Inc. (NASDAQ: HOTT) would have been a more obvious choice — and judging from the stock price, they could really use the help.
But I think it’s a good career move for Lavigne as she looks to move beyond her early success as a pseudo-edgy “punk rocker” for pre-teen girls. So far, that move has been a success with her 2007 album selling well and receiving solid reviews.
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Filed under: Good news, Products and services, Consumer experience, Competitive strategy, Marketing and advertising
 Over the weekend, Trent Reznor — the brains behind Nine Inch Nails — released his latest creation, Ghosts I-IV, over the internet. The first nine songs of the 36-song album (nearly 150 minutes in length) are available for free, and there are a number of other options for those willing to pay for the latest from the Pretty Hate Machine artist. For $5, for example, you can download the full album, which comes with a 40-page PDF and “digital extras.”
There are other buy options as well, the highest-tier of which is a $300 “Ultra-Deluxe Limited Edition Package,” which includes: high-quality downloads, two CDs, a data DVD, a Blu-ray high-definition DVD, and assorted extras. And? It’s signed by Mr. Reznor himself. Available to the first 2,500 buyers only, the $300 package sold out in two days. This represents a gross of three quarters of a million dollars in just 48 hours, and that doesn’t even account for the other, more inexpensive packages that fans have likely snatched up.
This was Reznor’s second foray into the cyber-release of his music. Last November 1, he posted a collaboration album with Saul Williams for free on the Internet. Those desiring a higher-quality format could donate $5.
Beth Gaston Moon is an analyst at Schaeffer’s Investment Research.
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